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I got this in my email this morning. The current law, the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Act (1991) allows people to sue for punitive damages against unsoliticted faxers. If you've got a fax machine, you know that these are not only annoying, but cost you money, and essentially turn the fax machine you own into a public broadcast receptacle for advertisers.

If you care about being able to use your own fax machine without having tons of ink and paper and telephone-line time consumed by advertisers (almost all of whom are dishonest) this is a good time to rattle the cage.

If email spam bothers you, this is 100x worse.

1 posted on 04/14/2005 6:58:38 AM PDT by thoughtomator
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To: thoughtomator

Wouldn't it be more appropriate to bombard them with FAXES? :)


2 posted on 04/14/2005 7:03:58 AM PDT by NonValueAdded (The murder of Terri Schindler Schiavo - NOT IN OUR NAME)
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To: thoughtomator

So what is the bill number?

If its up for a vote, there should be a number....


3 posted on 04/14/2005 7:07:02 AM PDT by Adder (Can we bring back stoning again? Please?)
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To: thoughtomator

Sounds like BULL to me. We already get more spam faxes and legitimate ones.


5 posted on 04/14/2005 7:11:53 AM PDT by PetroniDE (We Don't Live in Texas Anymore --- State Name is Now TAXES !!)
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We get a few of these junk faxes every day. I suprised someone hasn't come up with a low end fax machine with either a small built in screen or a VGA port for a monitor so that I can review faxes before printing them. Just hit delete instead of picking up the "hot stock picks" fax and dropping it directly into the trash can.


6 posted on 04/14/2005 7:11:58 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (Blackwell for Governor 2006: hated by the 'Rats, feared by the RINOs.)
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To: thoughtomator

One guy retaliated. He found the fax numbers of the junk fax sender. He then took a xerox of his hand -- third finger extended. He than made four copies and taped them end-to-end. He then started the fax to a junk sender at 2AM. As the top of the string emerged from his machine, he taped it to the other end, creating a perpetual fax of The Bird. He named it The Black Finger of Death. When the junker came in the next morning, he had an empty fax machine and 2,000 copies of The Finger. Poetic justice.


9 posted on 04/14/2005 7:18:58 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: thoughtomator

How do these "spaxxers" get ahold of fax numbers?
Is there a directory somewhere of phone numbers that are identified as fax numbers?


12 posted on 04/14/2005 7:24:04 AM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: thoughtomator
The current law, the Telecommunications Consumer Protection Act (1991) allows people to sue for punitive damages against unsoliticted faxers.

Have you ever tried this? The reward is supposed to be $500/fax, but you would have to determine whom to sue and go through all the hassles.

16 posted on 04/27/2005 1:52:54 PM PDT by heleny
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